Diy How To Sew A Lace Frontal Wig (Detailed) Ft. Klaiyi Hair

Hi guys, it's kind welcome back to my channel. This is gon na, be a two-part video, as you can see the hair that I've got on right now. It'S clearly reminiscent of lady gaga telephone. I wanted to do my own recreation in my own little style. I love love, love the color yellow, especially on hair. It'S one of my favorite hair colors. I don't love the look of dark rooted, yellow, but I do love the look that she had with a blonde streak in the front. But before I show you how I achieve the color, I wanted to do in-depth tutorial on how I sew my wigs together, starting from one frontal and three bundles of human hair. So this video in the next one is sponsored by khalili hair they've sent over three bundles of human hair. It'S blonde 613 straight hair, as well as a frontal. That'S 13 inches wide 4 inches deep. If you have no experience, if you're really a beginner, it might be easier for you to just buy a wig pre-made, which they also sell. Although I think it's a fun exercise to try to do it on your own, maybe try to save a little money and you can really control that way. The density of the hair, if you want to add more hair to it, if you want to save a little bit of money, maybe use two bundles instead of three by sewing together the bundles. You really have complete control over everything, so I want to go in-depth in this video on how I sew together my wigs, so I'm gon na show you guys in a second everything you need to start sewing together. Your wigs on your own and I'll be back in the next video to show you how I achieve this color, but I'm gon na. Let boy kind take it away from here, so I'm gon na be doing this to do talk-through style because there's lots. I want to cover here so I've got us our hair. Here again, I got three bundles of six: thirteen straight hair and frontal by frontal. That means the lace is going from your ear to ear and it goes about four inches back on your forehead. These are the three bundles of hair that we're gon na be working with, and these are gon na go in the back of the head and in the front is the lace frontal. I'Ve seen some confusion about what is a frontal? What is the closure? What is a full lace? Wig lace, frontal. It just goes on your hairline and your forehead, and about four inches back or less, depending on how they sized the frontal. A closure only has lace right here and you're meant to it down and cover up the rest of the hairline with just hair. A full lace wig would be an entire wig cap. That'S made out of lace like this, but all the wigs that I wear and you've seen me wear are just lace: frontals, meaning the weft of hair are just sewn into a fabric cap on the back, and only the front of it is laced like this. The way you prep your bundles to be sewn on is you just take out the elastic band, that's holding it together at the top, because it's all tightly rolled up for the sake of packaging, but I want to fold it up. Instead, I use my teeth. A lot in this process, you guys are going to think this is gross, but listen. I don't make wigs for nobody else, but me so I can do this besides. The smell has been dirtier places. So this is what the hair looks like so much for the hair. What else do you need? I have here my canvas, wig block. I really really recommend these, especially if you work with wigs pretty often the measurement on this is twenty two point: five, which is the average head size to do the sewing. I have this jumbo curved needle. It looks like this. I recommend these over the straight needles and then you also will want some weaving thread. I got this at the hair store and it's just a huge role before I used to be into the dome wig cap, the spandex one. I'Ve really outgrown that one, because I couldn't I couldn't pin into it with bobby pins because it was just solid. So I started using this. This is the Donna deluxe multi-use weaving cap and this one's made out of mesh, so I can pin bobby pins to it. Is the great advantage? That'S what that looks like it has these adjustable straps, which I don't really use. If I want to make it tighter, I will sew an elastic band into the wig, but I'm gon na put this on my canvas head and it's important that you put it on properly. So I can see exactly where the front is, and I'm gon na line it up with the front of the head and it's a little bit hard to see because I've covered this up with some plastic wrap to protect it. But your canvas head will have seams all along it and the center front seam is where the center of your forehead is so line that up with the center of the wig cap, I'm going to take some sewing pins and pin the wig cap into the block. With just a few pins just so it doesn't slide around so much so I'm gon na start off with a frontal. That'S gon na go in the front of the head. If I fold it in half, I can see exactly where the middle of the frontal is and I'll put a pin in it right there. So I can see this is the middle of the frontal. Now I'm gon na line up the middle of the frontal, with the middle seam in the canvas wig block. How far down do I take it? Do I stop here? Do I stop there? If this is where the hairline starts, I'm gon na take it just past where the cap ends, because I got a big head and I'm gon na put some pins in here just to lock that position in place now, let's turn it around and flip the hair Over this is the back of the frontal and I'm going to brush everything to the front, because the back of the frontal is what we're actually setting down. This is the angle at which I'm looking at it. While I'm sewing this whole u-shaped frontal needs to be flattened against the wig cap and sewn on to it. But this is pretty hard to get flat and it's hard because you can easily go too much one way or too much the other. Let'S try to start off by pinning down the middle with a little pin there, this side, I'm gon na pull taut and lay flat against the wig cap. Now the frontal is laying flat against the wig cap, but we have to check if it's fully, even before I saw wet, I have to inspect if they're equal is there an equal amount of frontal on both sides? It looks like this side is about an inch short of this flap at the front, while this side is almost about a quarter of an inch short of it, so this side is not pulled far back enough, and this I is pulled too far back. So let me undo those pins and trim just to try to adjust it a little bit. The middle that I chose on top seems to be too biased to the right side, so I'm gon na pull it just ever so slightly in the opposite direction and try again, does it look equal. You tell me these are my two side flaps, where it's gon na go in my ears. It'S about quarter of an inch away from that front, flap about a quarter of an inch away. I'D say that they're pretty much equal once the frontal is pinned completely flat on the cap and you've convinced yourself that it's not biased too much in favor of one side or the other. You can start sewing it. So I'm gon na thread, my needle and I double layer at the thread right. I'M gon na pull out about a single arms-length worth of thread. Then just tie off the end of the thread cut off the excess after the knot, and it should look like that. So I'm going to start in the middle and then go to the side. I always Pierce the needle through the net. First, then, that meaning the cap, and then I go through the frontal like that, since this is my first stitch, remember how we tied a knot at the end of it. Let me get it right here. I'M gon na hook my needle into the loop of the thread and then, when I pull it out, that will tie it down for me now. Let'S start our next stitch, I'm starting about a centimeter to the right of it notice. How my other hand is holding the thread also to the right of the first stitch, so I'm gon na pierce, my needle into the net and then up into the frontal like that, and then the needle is above my thread. So my thread is below it and then all I do is just pull and then notice. Where notice, where this hand is it's still holding that thread and then what that does. Is it secures the next stitch like that and that's called a blanket stitch so just to show you again, I'm holding the thread to the right of the last stitch and I'm piercing the needle through and then just pulling it up, and what that does. Is that each stitch reinforces the next one reinforces the last one, I'm not digging my needle in through the canvas head. That'S not what I'm doing, because you don't want to sell your wig to the to the block you just want to ever so lightly. Go in through the holes of the mesh like that, but when we pick up like one or two holes in the mesh and then pierce through the frontal and pull the needle through, I'm only spacing these about a centimeter apart. I won't do any more than that, because, if you space them too far apart, it's not very strong see how there's a little this little loop in the thread even after I pulled it tight, even when it, even when I pull this needle tight, that loop doesn't Go away if I was sloppy, I would just move on, but I don't want this loop here, because that's just gon na be bumpy, so I dig my needle underneath those and then pull them up a little bit. Sometimes this just happens when the thread is too long. There'S too many room for problems so hold it up with your fingers like that and then pull again and now it's nice and flat. Those can also be a consequence of the thread getting too looped up. Do you see those subtle subtle, loops, see how I need to let my needle spin, because the thread isn't straight there we go right and once the needles pierce through, I loop, my thread around it so see how my finger is always ahead of the needle and Now my finger is holding the thread taut so that it's nice and clean, sometimes the ends where it meets the edge of the cap - are the parts that they are the easiest. So I'm gon na reinforce that with just an extra stitch, then cut it off cut up a thread, giving yourself enough room to tie a nice knot or two or three. That'S how much I like to do and then cut off the rest and that's the right. Half of the frontal so Don now I'm just going to do the same to the left, half so to convince ourselves that we're on the right track. Let'S take our wig and take out all the pins! Well, now you can understand what we've just done: we've just sewn the frontal to the wig cap by sewing it on that edge and then once we take scissors to cut out all of this black stuff, and this will sit nice and flat on our heads and We can glue it down, but now, what's left is to sew all the hair in the back here. There'S this little adjustable strap for you to tighten it. I'M gon na cut this off, because this little plastic thing is actually kind of bulky and I can sew over it. So what I'm gon na do is I'm actually gon na sew right along this line right here, so I can sew that in place and actually keep that adjustable, strap, but I'll cut off that little plastic holder. I guess, because if we just cut this off without securely sewing into it, the elastic would just jump back that way, which I don't want. I want to keep. I want to keep that elastic stretch. Why not so now we're ready to sell the bundles and we're gon na start in the back going from this ear to this ear and then working our way up? I don't like to sell onto this little tab. I I you can cut off this tab. I like to keep it on. Remember the bundles that we popped in the beginning. Well, now I'm going to take them out so unfold, the entire thing and then before we start sewing we're gon na put pins down to see exactly what we're gon na do right and then this is how this bundle is gon na set. Of course, the bundle is much longer than that. So after that one we're gon na do another row on top and then another one and so on and so forth. For the most of the weft I like to just work on my lap, so I've got the wig right here. So, let's start here at the corner where this weft starts. If you can see, I'm actually piercing the needle through the fabric of the weft. With my first stitch, I loop the needle through the thread so that it just closes itself off like that, and then you continue with just the same process of sewing as the frontal. Once you get the hang of the technique of sewing and working with the curved needle and thread, you can really do this quite quickly, but I think getting used to working with a curved needle is half the battle. Then the other half the battle is just figuring out how you're placing your wefts, how you are figuring out, the geometry of where everything goes and piecing it together. Once you parse out the whole geometry of where all of the wefts go, then it's kind of just grad work after that, so we have reached this corner now. I'M gon na take the rest of the bundle that I've got beside me and I'm gon na fold. It over itself and I'm just going a little bit higher. So do you see that little distance there? That is how high I go from the previous weft, and this is where also my next one. If you're looking to save some money, you can buy two bundles of hair and a frontal instead of three bundles and since you're, working with less hair you'll have to space them out more in order to cover the whole wig. If I really wanted my wig to be super super laid and flat to my head, I might consider using two bundles of hair instead of three, because three bundles will be lots of hair. It'S gon na be pretty thick if you are doing even more bundles than that and using more hair, you're gon na need to space them even closer together. This is all the thread that I have left, which tells me it's time to start a new thread. So I'm gon na cut that off tie it down, cut off the excess and then rethread your needle or if you have multiple needles, you can jump right in with your next one, starting your next thread with that loop through the hole to tie it down. So here we are at another corner again we're meeting the frontal, so I'm gon na sew right up next to it. Let'S pull the thread nice and taut so that that corner is down flat and then just keep going. This process is gon na get really repetitive. So I'm gon na do this same exact process of zigzagging from corner to corner from one end of the frontal. To the other end, I'm gon na do that with the entire first bundle and most of the second bundle as well. It'S only with the third and last bundle, once I get closer to the top that I really switch things up so I'll explain things further when I get up there, but for this part I'm gon na time-lapse. So I'm nearly at the end of my very first weft, see how, if I fold over the next one, it only goes out to here. So I'm gon na sell all the way up to there and then I'm gon na start working on my second weft and just continue on all right. So this is the end of my second bundle, all of the wefts that I've sewn on so far. I'Ve just done zigzag from end to end to end to end to end. If I sewed, my bundle like I've been sewing everything in so far. I would be doing a u-shape like this, and this and this and this and this and this and this it turns out from experience that creates lots of lines that are just going perpendicular to the frontal and something that I've noticed. Is that when you look at the hair face on, if you just move a little bit, you will see all those lines you'll see those you'll see the black netting exposed. So what I want to do with my last bundle is: I want to be sewing. It parallel to the frontal I'll mark it out with pencil just to give you an idea. So that's how I'm gon na sew this last bundle you'll also notice that I'm not gon na do a zigzag pattern up here. I don't want too much lumpiness at the top I'm gon na, pin where I want this first one to go and I'm gon na cut it off with scissors. Some wigmaker's really don't like cutting up your bundles. For one reason, it hurts the value of the bundles. If you need to take it, apart put it back together, it's better if the bundle is all in one piece, as opposed to having been cut up into a hundred different pieces. Another reason why people don't like cutting into their bundles is because it can cause some shedding when that raw edge starts to fray. So those are some considerations that you can take, but for me I weigh the pros and the cons, so I've reached the end of one row and I don't have anything to zigzag on to, but I'm not gon na finish off my thread. I'M gon na get the next row now. I'M gon na lay on top another row all right. I read a final row: I'm putting right up next to the frontal, so you can't see any of this gap right. So I measure it out - and this is pretty good, like very small - cut, trying to cut any hairs when you're cutting the weft. Okay, we're coming up on the end of this weft, which is good because we're also coming up on the end of this thread so see. If I can get one more loop in this there we go. Listen you guys sitting at home, have just seen all of this go on in a matter of minutes, but I've been working at this sewing this for about three hours. I'Ve been sitting in this chair, so it feels very satisfying to reach the end of it. Now. What we want to do is cut off this whole part of the wig cap that we have not sewed on, which is the part. That'S underneath the lace frontal, so don't cut right up next to the lace at least give yourself a little bit of room, because if you cut off the frontal, then you're kind of up, because you just ruined all that hard work right. So I'm leaving myself a little bit of wiggle room. This is what the inside of the wig looks like. So you guys get an idea of the construction. So there we have all the wefts that are just sewn side to side, not the most precise science, but hey it works. So this is what the wig finally looks like, depending on the color you got in the style you get. Maybe it's ready to wear. I'M not gon na wear it like this, I'm gon na add some funky colors to it. If you made it to the end of this video thanks so much for sticking around be sure to stay tuned. For my next video, where I show you guys how to achieve this color, but even if you don't end up making a wig on your own, these same techniques also apply to sewing in West's. If you want to add hair to your wigs, whether it's synthetic or human - and it gives you a lot of insight into how wigs are made and everything that goes into them, I sort of believe in investing in some good hair, because a lot of work really Goes into them and you don't always see. Ok, ok! I really thought I had a piece of dirt. Oh maybe you find her anyway. As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. A lot of work goes into making these wigs and I really find the more I've practiced. The more I've tried this out, the better I get, but I hope this gives you a little bit of insight if you've wanted to try this out on your own. Thanks again to khalili hair for sponsoring this video, but until my next one I hope you guys are all doing well and I'll. See you all next time, bye,